Marinzter discusses ethics code,
maintenance bill at short meeting
By Brad Davis
Staff Reporter
Because of the canpuswide elec
tions, Wednesday’s meeting of the As
sociation of Students of the University
of Nebraska lasted rally 17 minutes.
Twenty-seven senators attended,
including President Eric Marintzer,
who discussed his newly unveiled
University Code of Ethics for UNL
students.
He asked senators to share copies
of the Code with other students to “get
the word out and hear what students
have to say.” Marintzer said a discus
sion regarding students reactions
would be held at the next meeting. He
said the Code, which may be adopted
April 2, would “leave arlegacy” for his
administration.
Marintzer also spoke about LB857
—the deferred maintenance bill pres
ently before the Legislature — on
which he testified on behalf of ASUN
Tuesday at the Capitol.
State senators were on campus
Tuesday for the Senators on Campus
program sponsored by ASUN, which
Marintzer called a success.
No new or unfinished business was
discussed.
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By Erin Gibson
Senior Reporter
The KEG party will stay afloat for
next spring’s student government elec
tions, party members said Wednesday
night.
But next year, the party will win,
they said.
After hearing the election results,
KEG presidential candidate Scott
Brauer said the election was partly a
success for his fledgling party — a
party that plans to run again with a
full slate of senate candidates next
year.
“We’ll definitely be seen and
heard,” Brauer said. “We’re not go
ing to go gently into that good night.”
The KEG party, which garnered
about 32 percent of the vote, gathered
in the dark at Holmes Lake for a so
ber cookout and warm laughs while
they anticipated the election tally.
Scott said all KEG members
present helped raise voter awareness
and the voter participation level on
campus by about 300 votes, he said.
KEG party members raised student
interest because they took their mes
sage to students, Brauer said, and
reached out to diverse groups to ask
for their input.
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could happen with effective student
government representatives in office,
he said.
As a result, students will expect
more from student government next
year, but will not find satisfaction in
this year’s winners, the ADVANCE
party, he said.
“I am pretty confident that any
party they can field will lose to us next
year,” Brauer said.
ADVANCE must keep all of its
campaign promises, because KEG will
be watching, he said. Any failures will
hurt it in next spring’s elections.
“Now it’s time to put up or shut
up,” Brauer said.
The KEG party now plans to form
a student group that will continue in
teracting with students and will be
well-prepared for next year’s elections.
Brauer said he only had four weeks
to prepare for the election, including
getting senators to run on the ticket
and collecting the 400 signatures re
quired to get the presidential and vice
presidential candidates on the ballot..
Heather Olsen, KEG 2nd vice
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SCOTT BRAUER, KEG presidential candidate, receives notice Wednesday
night that he has been defeated In the ASUN election. Marie Meyer (right),
1st vice presidential candidate, said he was disappointed, hot the party
weald be back In next year’s election._
presidential candidate, said the short
preparation time hurt the party’s
chances in this year’s race.
She said the number of supporters
the party gained in that short time
shows the importance of reaching all
students, many of whom do not know
or care about ASUN.
Students feel separated from
ASUN, she said, partly because it does
not reach out to other student groups.
For instance, one ASUN representa
tive this year promised to attend the
Residence Hall Association meetings
in which Olsen is involved. The sena
tor promised to be the RHA’s student
government liaison, but seldom at
tended, she said.
“I don’t remember their name,”
Olsen said. “I don’t remember what
they looked like.”
Mark Meyer, KEG 1st vice presi
dential candidate, said the dynamic
leadership of Brauer would lead the
KEG party to a win next year and a
change of the lackluster leadership in
ASUN.
“He’s a strong thinker and an in
tellectual,” Meyer said. “Those quali
ties make him an excellent leader.”
Brauer said he hoped the new
ADVANCE senators and officers
would be open to innovative ideas and
remember they are accountable to stu
dents.
If ADVANCE does not remember,
he said, students would remind its can
didates next spring.
Party credits win to dedication
ADVANCE from page 1
T-shirts, began gathering at the N
Zone, 728 Q St., about 9 p.m.
Ruwe and Rager, wearing their T
shirts, arrived around 10:30 p.m., fully
armed with results of ADVANCE’S
victory.
‘‘I think the showing here is great,”
Rager said. “It shows just how much
support we had going in.”
Ruwe and Rager said were pleased
with the results.
“We think that at the very worst,
we might have lost two or three sena
torial positions to KEG,” Ruwe said.
“We’re hoping for the best.”
Ruwe might not have needed to
hope. According to the unofficial poll
results released by the ASUN office,
KEG had no senatorial candidates
who beat out ADVANCE senatorial
candidates.
That wasn’t a surprise for Malcolm
Kass, ADVANCE 2nd vice president
elect.
“This is dominance,” Kass said. “Ii
shows that people who work hard ir
A SUN get what they deserve.”
Yet results did not cane without
hard work and a trust in the experi
ence of ADVANCE officers, Kass said.
' “It really cones down to experi
ence,” Kass said. “You’ve got three
candidates that know how to get the
job done and it’s clear that the stu
dents recognized that.”
ADVANCE’S candidates will be
inaugurated at a ceremony in April.
The current ASUN administration
will hold its final meeting April 2.
Nelson: Tax cuts before NU maintenance
NELSON from page 1
: propriations Committee that the state
could not afford both a tax cut and
$100 million in aid to schools.
This week, the Appropriations
Committee heard testimony from NU
officials requesting that the state pay
half of the $95 million needed for
building maintenance and repairs for
the next 12 to 14 years. Also, the com
mittee considered NU’s operating bud
get request for $19 million more in
1997-99, all of which exceeds the
governor’s recommendation.
Nelson said the university should
be concerned that unforeseen revenue
shortages in the future could eventu
ally cause other programs to ask for
more money. NU would then have to
compete with programs already iden
tified as priorities, such as the pro
posed College of Information Science
and Technology, distance-learning
programs and incentives for retaining
the state’s brightest students.
“The university needs to be care
ful about implementing programs it
can’t sustain,” he said.
Nelson said it was not his position
to decide how the university uses its
money, but the university could ex
plore other ways to work within the
approved budget without a significant
tuition increase.
Nelson said he thought the univer
sity budget he recommended was fair
and fiscally sound. He said he was
committed to a balanced budget fix the
state and would veto the Appropria
tion Committee’s budget if it was not
balanced.
“If the funds from the budget sur
plus don’t go back to the citizens as
tax cuts, we won’t be able to sustain
the economic growth we’ve experi
enced.”